Martin Roth has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/32407 )
Change subject: soc/amd/picasso: Create picasso as a copy of stoneyridge ......................................................................
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Well the stoneyridge source base you copy from is far from perfect, and seems to have reached the same "go runaway" approach as it was in the days of SAGE, as Google / Silverback collaboration with AMD seems to now refuse to do any reviews on it.
https://review.coreboot.org/q/topic:%22stoney"
Also back in 2017 conference I was told by Google staff that this StoneyPI source would be scrubbed and relicensed once related Chromebook hardware ships. Any news on the scrubbing?
AMD has no engineers to do any coreboot work. They are outsourcing to Silverback. It's not that they refuse to review anything, but they have nobody to do it.
Silverback was supposed to go back and fix any issues with the Stoney code. I was under the impression that that was already done, as all outstanding bugs were fixed. If it's not, please help identify areas that need improvement and I'll work to get things changed. This is especially important as it IS being used as a base for the Picasso work.
On the issue of releasing the StoneyPI code, AMD did agree to release it, but when they started working towards that, found that because of internal issues, they had no way to do that. I don't even know what to say beyond that. :( I'm sorry, I didn't get it written into a contract and I have no way to force the issue.